Percentage of patients with follow-up visit to family physician within 30 days of index stroke/TIA discharge (CI95%)

Number of patients with follow-up visit to family physician within 30 days of index stroke/TIA discharge

Number of patients with discharged after hospitalisation for stroke/TIA.

Collects primary data on the provision of acute stroke care in hospitals. Data is collected at the individual patient level. Random sample of patients 18 years of age and older discharged from the emergency department (ED) or from an inpatient stay, with a main problem/most responsible diagnosis of stroke or TIA among hospitals seeing at least 30 strokes/TIAs per year. If there was more than one stroke/TIA during the sampling period, only the first stroke/TIA event is included. Chart abstraction is performed by trained research personnel, and if chart review confirms a diagnosis of stroke or TIA, the event is included in the OSA. The OSA collects information on stroke type and severity, presenting symptoms and co-morbid conditions, and validation by duplicate chart abstraction has shown excellent agreement for key variables, including age, sex, stroke type and admission to hospital. The OSR is housed at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), where it is linked to population-based administrative databases using unique encoded patient identifiers.

Publications

Hall, R., Sondergaard, D., Wodchis, W., Fang, J., Mondal, P., & Bayley, M. (2017). Trajectories of Stroke Care in Ontario: Which Path to Best Care? Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 44(3), 261-266. doi:10.1017/cjn.2016.440